The Settings app has taken over, but Control Panels aren't going anywhere yet.
  • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    25 days ago

    Muahaha now I can prepare for my final form: crotchety old man complaining about how they killed off the control panel.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    8·
    26 days ago

    And just like that the last vestiges of my computing childhood are gone. I’m gonna go sadly play Oregon Trail on an emulator now.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    26 days ago

    This would bother me more if I hadn’t switched to Linux full time 5y ago. Microsoft is gonna Microsoft I guess.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      101·
      26 days ago

      Every one of these Microsoft controversies since I ditched them has just validated my decision.

    • mint_tamas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      26 days ago

      I don’t think this is a real issue in the age of bespoke design for applications. Only a minority of then use the OS widgets for their interface. You can argue that this is a bad thing, but then the context menus are just a tiny portion of the entire issue.

      • tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14·
        26 days ago

        As annoying as it is, I’d rather have visually inconsistent elements rather than broken applications. There’s something to be said for backwards compatibility.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      25 days ago

      Most people don’t care about this, and I wish I didn’t, but for whatever reason my brain just hates inconsistency like this, and Windows is the absolute worst for it. It makes me hate using my computer. I’m truly jealous of the people who are completely unfazed by ugly/inconsistent UX, I wish it was a trait I had.

      Context menus like this, UI elements from many different windows versions, 5+ UX toolkits in use at any given time, inconsistent padding, inconsistent fonts, inconsistent keyboard shortcuts within MS apps, dark mode preference being listened to for one app and ignored in another.

      I hate Apple, have never owned any of their products and likely never will, but they’d be embarrassed if they had a UX this sloppy and inconsistent. They’d straight up not release it, because for all their faults, they do actually value UX consistency.

      Linux DEs are far more visually cohesive than Windows (especially the likes of Gnome and ElementaryOS), even KDE which was/is frequently mocked for being a bit ugly and inconsistent has improved leaps and bounds recently and is now far more consistent than Windows. And they’re all working on a combined budget that’s probably less than 1% of Windows’ development budget. Wtf are Microsoft doing??

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    26 days ago

    They just have to rename, move, and otherwise obfuscate shit. Always in the general direction of worse.

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    26 days ago

    Let’s be real…Microsoft finally depreciated Windows with Windows 11.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    26 days ago

    No big deal to me. I use search in control panel to find what I need. Do the same for Settings. Or just open mmc and load the appropriate item.

  • esc27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    26 days ago

    Settings itself has been around in one form or another since at least Win95. 29 years…

  • feef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    26 days ago

    Just yesterday I wanted to disable sound devices. The button in the settings app even says „turn devices on/off“, but once inside the menu, there is no option to enable or disable sound devices.

    Had to use the control panel again.

  • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    26 days ago

    While My go to is control panel if they fully committed to settings in win 8 I wouldn’t give a fuck. I don’t care where my settings live as long as it’s all in 1 place

    Pity I have shifted enough away from win thar I only need it for a single program and could no longer care